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    "id": 1029996,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Laikipia CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Catherine Waruguru",
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        "legal_name": "Catherine Wanjiku Waruguru",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also want to take this opportunity to thank His Excellency the President of the Republic of Kenya for nominating one of our many women in this country to be the first Data Commissioner. I have not personally met Ms. Kassait but I want to personally congratulate her and the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation for a job well done and taking it one step at a time to see that majority of our women are not denied an opportunity to serve on the basis of where they come from, where they are married or who they have given birth to children with. Hon. Speaker, I am not ashamed as a woman to say that majority of women go through a lot of discrimination and when it comes to women positions whether appointments or elective positions, men always tend to ask us questions like: “Who married you? Who did you give birth to children with?” I want to thank this Committee and this 12th Parliament for rising to the occasion and allowing a woman, who is diligent, qualified, educated, exposed and experienced an opportunity to be our first Data Commissioner. This woman has a very important role to see that she implements the Data Protection Act, 2019. This is our first Act ever in place and now that the world has gone digital and that majority of us are overexposed to the digital world, there is need for the Government to be the guardian angel and to protect Kenyans from the abuse on the social spaces. The first Data Commissioner has a duty to see that she establishes and maintains a register for data controllers and data processors. This is to ensure that a majority of the people who are dealing with our very personal and private information, not to mention our banks, the M-PESA, M-Shwari and people who are lending us money, do not overexpose us to abuse over personal information. I am very hopeful that our first Data Commissioner’s name will be approved this afternoon. She has the role of exercising oversight on data operations in this country. She has an engagement to ensure that she receives any complaint from any Kenyan who feels that their rights have been infringed."
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